So, naturalists observe, a flea; Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum.

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers.

In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire.

So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.